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Full-bodied, concentrated, and layered, it has incredible purity in its cassis and darker, almost blue fruits, some classic yet primary tobacco, graphite, and mineral notes, a dense mid-palate, and awesome length on the finish.
Blackcurrants and blueberries with violets and crushed stone. Extremely aromatic. Full-bodied but very tight and reserved, with racy, almost steely tannins. Some subtle sweet fruit in the center palate. Great transparency and clarity. Super precision here. Vertical and polished.
...very succinct bouquet, not one that leaps from the glass and demands attention, but it unfolds slowly, at its own pace, revealing enticing scents of blackberry, cedar, iris petals and crushed stone. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit...quite enormous structure that exerts grip towards the finish.
...aromas of dark berries, pencil shavings, violets and pipe tobacco, all framed by creamy new oak...medium to full-bodied, fleshy and concentrated...
Dark fruited, smoother than the 2019 but less elegant. A bit closed on the palate. Chewy, dense, dry but in a lovely way.